Lee'or and Wendy Rutenberg and their daughter Sadie – the first child in the US HALO IDE trial to receive the smallest mechanical heart valve in the world - took center stage at the fourth annual Denali Dash 5K Run and 1K walk for kids.

The Round Rock, Texas, IT behemoth will officially announce the change – bringing the annual services revenue requirement to $3 million from $6 million for Titanium partners – after a series Partner Advisory Board meetings scheduled for Oct. 11-17.

"Although the rating agency views the acquisition of Forsythe as strategically sound … execution risks and costs of integrating Forsythe will further strain the company's credit metrics," Moody's wrote in a rating action.

Wright surprised the audience at the NetApp Insight 2017 conference by running across the stage to pull the covers off the latest iteration of the technology developed by his former company, SolidFire.

A year after Intelisys was bought by ScanSource, the master agent is seeing convergence among VARs and agent partners in the form of working together on deals or mergers, rather than channel organizations building out new businesses on their own.

NetApp will put the Veeam Availability Suite on its price list as a NetApp SKU, bringing the software to a wider customer base while making it easy for NetApp partners to bundle it as part of a larger sale.

Twenty of the publicly held channel companies on our watch list saw the price of their stock increase in the third quarter of 2017 while only six recorded stock price declines. See who was up and who was down in the third quarter of 2017.